Amitava Mandal PMP, CSM

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Toronto, ON, M4J 1B3

647-***-**** * ad24bh@r.postjobfree.com

Ambitious, results-focused Management Consultant with more than 18 years of leadership experience defining solutions for complex projects with an emphasis on risk assessments, system optimization, market performance, technological enhancements/transformations, enterprise-wide digitization/digital, Enterprise Risk and Capital Market. Adept at sourcing, developing, supervising, and mentoring exceptional professional teams focused on cost-effective performance, quality, efficiency, and customer experience.

Program Management/Agile

Scrum/Sprint Planning/Jira

Integrated Program Plans

Risk Assessments

Process Improvement/COE Set up

Full Life Cycle Management

Budgeting & Cost Analysis

Process Improvements

Market Research & Intelligence

Change Management

Capital Market & Enterprise Risk

SAS, AML & Digitization/Loyalty

Calypso, Murex

Automation Framework

Vendor & Stakeholder Relations

BUSINESS EXPERTISE

Experience with Client Onboarding/Goal Planning/End-to-End Digitization including E-Forms, E-Signatures

Extensive experience in the financial sector such as Capital Market (Interest Rates, Credit Rate, Equities, Fixed Incomes, Derivatives, Collateral, Brokerage), Enterprise Risk Management (Market Risk, Credit Risk, Operations Risk), Regulatory Compliance (OSFI, US Fed Reserve, BCBS, AML FINTRAC, Dodd Frank), Retail Banking, Wealth Management, Payment and Insurance sector.

Applications exposure include; Market Risk Incremental VaR, Stress/Back testing, Credit Risk, Cross-Asset Front to Back applications (Trading, Back Office processing, Payments, Accounting and Hedge Accounting) - Calypso, Murex; AML/Fraud, Fineos.

Experience with cutting edge Brokerage solutions for clients, advisors, branches and head office.

Responsible for setting up Program/Testing/Release Management COE for Tier 1 financial institution, transformation services, outsourcing

Proposal preparation and communications in the selling of solutions to secure business contracts.

Project/task/resource planning, organizing and prioritizing to optimize results and manage testing from concept to completion with remarkable deadline sensitivity.

Technical Proficiencies Include:

PROJECT MGT TOOLS

Microsoft Project, Clarity, JIRA (with project management add ons)

DATA BASES/LANGUAGES

MSSQL, DB2, MySQL, MS Access, Oracle, Netezza, SAS, Java, VBA, Python

BUG TRACKING TOOLS

Advanced JIRA, HP Quality Center/ALM, IBM Clearquest, QA Director, Zephyr

BUILD/RELEASE

Continuous Integration (Atlassian Family- Confluence, Crucible), Stash, Teamcity, Jenkins, GitHub, CaliberRM, WinCVS, Dynatrace

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SR PROJECT MANAGER- CIBC May/2021- Jan/2024

End to end delivery for Alerts program, disclosures, AI bot and Digital Chat programs

Defined project expenses, financial/statistical data analyses, resource levels, release coordination, scrum management, risk/escalation, and daily leadership update

Managed vendor delivery, regulatory team for Bill C86

Managed all upstream and downstream applications related to Bill C86 and related deliveries

Partnered internally and externally to discover opportunities for enhancement of the customer experience, operational efficiencies, and cost-efficient operations.

PROJECT MANAGER – COOPERATORS, GUELPH Apr/2020- May/2021

Program Management for Coop’s Digital Transformation program

Organized daily scrum meeting/defect triage.

Managed Scrum based Development/release and testing with product team and clients

Chaired Bi-weekly Executive meetings for program

Ensured adequate performance tuning, security testing

PROJECT MANAGER – CIBC, Toronto Mar/2019- Apr/2020

Program delivery for CIBC’s Digital Goal Planning Program (Wealth)

Manage LOB related Program delivery for Vendor tool- Voyant and WalkMe.

Program Status reporting in Executive Steering Committees, escalation/change management for WalkMe, Voyant/Digital Goal Planning working group, business stakeholder

Onboarded Vendor WalkMe (Advanced AI) for CIBC Enterprise

Generated documentation for adequate reporting, oversight, and test coverage

PROJECT MANAGER – PCChoice Financial Digitization Aug/2016- Feb/2019

Toronto

Responsible for managing End-to-End Digital Delivery/Releases

Manage developments, requirements, Testing, and Releases for End to End Master Card/Loyalty Transformation program

Ensure effective communication and reporting with Steering Committees, Management, Executive, staff and other functional groups for all projects, programs and lines of business

Responsible for all reporting, managing & tracking all IT and business related issues for the projects within the program; including escalation and resolution

Managed set up Big Data platform/Data Analytics

Efficiently and effectively communicate and implement changes

Refining agile approach for adoption in the future phases

PROJECT MANAGER Mar/2016- Jan/2019

Lightpoint Technologies, NY

Responsible for Managing Lightpoint Technologies Tactical and Strategic End to End Capital Market/Risk Platform

Manage regulatory developments, methodology changes, and clarifications

Coordinator Operational portions of the Collateral Optimization Initiative. Impacts/Implications for TOM.

Work on internal technology enhancements and counter proposals

Coordinate proposals for various clients

Managed Back Office workflow (Trade, Confirmation, Settlements, Accounting/Hedge Accounting) configuration/delivery

Coordinating Market risk workflow tailoring for regulatory including Back Test, P&L attribution test, market data

management

Responsible for ensuring regulatory commitments were met, and responsible all documentation, reporting, managing and tracking all Development, BA and QA related issues for the program; including escalation and resolution

PROJECT MANAGER Feb/2016- Aug/2016

Bank of Montreal, Toronto

Onboarding and Digitization Program

Steered performance of expert project team to effectively advance Onboarding and Digitization program.

Championed Needs Navigator, Tablet deployments, Eforms/ESignature digital projects

Coordinate/manage Overall Digital implementation

Defined project expenses, financial/statistical data analyses, resource levels, release coordination, scrum management, risk/escalation, and daily leadership update

Partnered internally and externally to discover opportunities for enhancement of the customer experience, operational efficiencies, and cost-efficient operations.

PROJECT MANAGER March/2015- Feb/2016

Investors Group/Mackenzie Investments, Toronto/Winnipeg

Managed a dedicated, skilled team for Investors Group/Mackenzie Investments

Responsible for managing Fusion Program team from post development to implementation

Ensured optimal performance of Fusion Program Team through R-Broker system integration, which encompassed third-party vendor support from Broadridge, Fidessa, Charles River, Fundserv, National Bank, Cannex, St Joseph, and Pathway.

Organized daily scrum sessions (JIRA Agile/Sprint dashboard), business communications, preventive maintenance, Datawarehouse extraction/validation

Determined resource allocation, billing, effort estimation, timesheet creation, application development, batching, defect management, vendor management, release closure reporting, change requests, and regulatory compliance

Formulated technology solutions for products, services, and management information in support of long-term business partnerships.

Effective end-to-end Project Management includes Application Development, Batch process, Test/Implementation

Approach, estimation, resource, defect management, Vendor management, Release closure reports

MANAGING DIRECTOR (TECH HEAD) 2013- 2015

Bank of Montreal, Toronto

Capital Market/Enterprise Risk Technologies

Sourced and mentored high-skilled and efficient Project Team in advancement of BMO Capital Market and Risk Technologies (Various Projects) in direct report to CIO.

Defined approach/coverage/Risk Based End-to-End release for Market Risk (VaR, Back Test, Stress Test, calibration etc.), Counterparty Credit Risk, Credit Risk Common Data Model

Apply effective Management for NVaR production releases, business client and regulatory reporting for Canadian OSFI and the US Federal Reserve

Accountable for comprehending and reporting to the program management team from a timeline, cost and risk perspective, the testing impact of scope changes/PCRs. Resource allocation, budget- clarity tool.

Ensure effective communication and reporting with Steering Committees, Management, Executive, staff and other

functional groups for all projects, programs and lines of business

Managed implementation for CRDR (Credit Risk Data and Repository) with Composite (Data Virtualization)

Managed BMO’s CVA calculation overall audit process (OSFI, KPMG and BMO Internal)

Managed Prototype development that produces Benchmark for VaR/Back Test

Developed and participated review the OSFI documentation required for the program

Implemented DAC (Data Automation Composer- In house tool development for real time end-to-end data quality validation) for VaR, Back Test data validation and reduced Test cycle execution time,

Setup release management team, and implement Continuous Integration for Market Risk, and Credit Risk technologies.

Implemented BMO hosted JIRA and effective use of JIRA in Agile/Task/Defect dashboard/business communications.

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT 2010-2013

BMO Capital Market, Toronto

Calypso Implementation

Drive Calypso Implementation FP Consolidation program initiatives with emphasis on end-to-end Agile Release/Test Management, BO framework, Unit Testing, SIT, UAT, binary releases, Interface Testing, as well as Heat map and plan strategies.

Forecasted project phases, defined product framework, determined legal entities, and confirmed location coverage.

Generated documentation for adequate reporting, oversight, and IT monitoring.

Cultivated relationships within development, QA, environment, and external business partner teams.

Responsible for documentation, reporting, managing & tracking all IT and business-related issues for the projects; including escalation and resolution

Designed framework for Trade Capture, Trade Events, Workflow, Confirmations, and Settlements/Payments.

Asset to program testing coordination, sign offs, and governmental compliance.

Designed framework for Trade Capture, Trade Events, Workflow (Trade, Confirmations, Settlements/Payments).

Managed UAT/Production Parallel Execution, Supported Operation/User Team for the Back-Office processes/Testing/Training

Provided framework for the products (Swap, Swaption, Cap/Floor, Single Swap Leg, Futures, Fx-Option, Cross-

Currency swap, Cancellable cross Currency, Fixed Income OTC Bond option, Fx products, etc.), legal entities, and location wise functional coverage.

Framework coverage for all aspects of the IRD business, including operations (confirmations, settlements, payments,

funding, reporting), middle office (trading risk, market risk, credit risk, PnL) and front office (trade entry, basic

modelling).

Collateral and Margin requirements both cleared and OTC. Impacts to firm capital reporting and Basel III impacts

PROJECT MANAGER

TD Securities Wholesale Banking

Strategic initiative Program

Spearheaded project team in optimizing the Strategic Initiative program, which focused on complete interface implementations, data migration, Wire-Payment upgrades, and STP workflow adoption. Facilitated daily status meetings, data transfers across multiple common dimensions and from multiple sources. Administered non-deterministic testing to advance reconciliation exception management, employ workflows, conduct FOBO recon, and ensure Fiserv integration.

Key Contributions:

Provided End-to-End Coordination/management for the data migration for Murex, Calypso, DSTS, FIS, Bloomberg, Summit, WSS.

Confirmation and Settlements (Calypso). Demonstrated execution effort for Complex M3 project (Monitor key risk/control measures and increases management’s ownership) where trading data across multiple common dimensions and from multiple sources are hitting a single cognos tool

Managed non-deterministic testing for Reconciliation structured exception management project that introduce workflow across exception/break management processes, FOBO recon, Fiserv integration

Managed Wire-Payments project- Message gateway capability was upgraded, enabled STP process/workflow logic for the existing wire payment system

PROJECT MANAGER 2009-2010

SAP, Toronto, ON

Coached highly functional, productive, and adaptable Development/Release/QA teams to maximize software products in a test-driven environment. Operated as Project Manager/Scrum Master to execute Product Automation targets with infrastructure coordination, artefact development, financial control, status updates, as well as all Marketing Requirement Document (MRD) and Technical Design Document (TDD) review sessions.

Key Contributions:

Clientele includes AXA, ING, AIG, and Markel.

Retrieved release test beds into a predictable reflection of live service

Aligned system designs with architectural guidelines and business goals. Teamed with the product owner to maintain backlog.

Improved PMO/processes with progressive development of the PMF, SDLC, and Agile methodologies.

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCES

Project Manager/ Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, ON 2005-2009

Facilitated eBA, Capital Market, Anti-Money Laundering System (AMLS)/Frauds

Project 1: Murex upgrade

Project 2: Enterprise Application-AML/Private Counsel and Trust Conversion to RBC Wealth Management platform

Project 3: eBusiness Architecture (eBA)-Retail Banking

Project 4: NEXUS-Claims Administration/ oversee project for RBC-Insurance, IBM-Canada, Microsoft-Canada, Fineos-Ireland

Additional experience as Project Lead/Manager SAS Global Services (2004-2005); Consultant/ SmartStream Technologies (2002-2004); Consultant/ Lindt & Sprungli Inc. (2001-2002); and Software Consultant/ ILI Technologies (2000-2001).

Education & Certifications

Bachelor of Engineering – Specialization in Electronics, 2000

Shivaji University, India

PMP • Certified Agile Scrum Master • Certified Financial Risk Engineer

SAS • Derivative • Calypso/Murex • IBM Certified E@Business Application

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS

« Setup key release processes between vendors for smooth dev/testing coverage

« Coordinated/initiated back-end development/validation mapping

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS

« Hybrid delivery model between program and vendor’s agile approach

«Advanced AI platform embed into Digital Planning

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS

« Re-engineer the planning, building and running of the Program

« Successful delivery for Digital Platform President Choice Master Card- Web, Mobile

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS

« Defining One risk engine for Capital Stabilization, in-memory aggregation technology enhancement, component-based framework, Build Data Aggregation, Pricing Library

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS

« Strategy for key issues impacting effectiveness in the form of both project and short cycle quick wins

« Effective strategy to overcome digitization performance/Operability testing challenges

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS

« Implemented cost effective business Scenario based implementation Approach for brokerage solution RBroker and Investors Group

« Timely delivered each release with maximum coverage

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS

« Implemented unique business Data Validation Tool for Market Risk Next Generation program

« End-to-End Release/program Management for MRNG (Market Risk Next generation), Credit Risk Data and Reporting program, Counterparty Credit Risk, Ops risk, Structural Management risk

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS

« Implemented End-to-End (FO, MO, BO, Interfaces), and solutions for packaged application on agile approach

« Played a key role in the coordination of all planning, execution and reporting for program testing activities, Framework design and offered end-to-end testing for Trade, Settlements process, Accounting and Hedge Accounting (Cashflow and Fairvalue)

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